When Newt Gingrich got humiliated three weeks ago in Iowa, he responded the way any self-respecting political scrapper would after being beaten down and bloodied.

He got up and started swinging wildly. Not just at the guy who knocked him out, but at any foe (hello media elite!) who dared come within reach.

Contrast that with Mitt Romney, a candidate so scripted and disciplined even his one-liners in TV debates sound poll-tested and focus grouped.

I will show passion and, from time to time, perhaps a little energy  as I feel it in my heart, Romney said on the morning after his crushing loss to Gingrich in the South Carolina primary.

But I am a person of sobriety, capacity, steadiness. And I think thats what you need in the White House.

Sobriety. Capacity. Steadiness. Perhaps a little energy. Right there, in a nutshell, is Romneys problem.

In an election year when a great many Republican voters are motivated by unbridled contempt for President Barack Obama and East Coast political elites, the former Massachusetts governors failure to channel that populist anger in any convincing way is becoming his biggest obstacle to the GOP nomination.

With the results in South Carolina, Americans saw the first stirrings of anti-establishment Tea Party resentment that had been largely absent in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Gingrichs defiant comeback to CNN host John Kings Thursday night debate question about his marital infidelities is being cited  correctly  as the turning point in a state often described as the heart and soul of the Republican party.

The former House Speakers indignant critique of despicable media types was catnip for the Republican base.

Its part of a broader politics of grievance strategy that Gingrich is executing  at the moment  better than his rivals....

Remember why the wise Japanese Admiral said we could not be invaded??? Combine that with the biggest gun buying binge EVER over the last 3 years,

Am I angry? YES! Am I an American? YES! Why should race be in the picture? It is not...I won't drop my arms because I am white. Try another argument. I am well armed, but more than that, very, very well trained and tested. Bring it!

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posted on 01/22/2012 5:45:43 PM PST
by IrishPennant
(We don't want to work so we go to work to make enough money not to work...Huh?)

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

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posted on 01/22/2012 5:51:22 PM PST
by Viking2002
(My regular avatar has resumed after the holiday festivities. But it's not yet sober. And it's armed.)

I saw some of the interviews with some of the “white” voters and they didn’t seem “angry” to me. They were smiling and appeared happy. It sounds like someone is racial profiling again. Sorry Shelly. You need to get out more often. It appears that you’re confusing American voters with the OccuPies.

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